KR20130108464A - Mimo beamforming-based single carrier frequency division multiple access system - Google Patents

Abstract

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming-based single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system is disclosed. At the transmitter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) is performed on transmission data to generate frequency domain data. The frequency domain transmit data is mapped to assigned subcarriers. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is performed on the transmit data mapped to the assigned subcarriers to generate time domain transmit data. The time domain transmit data is transmitted via antennas. At a receiver, an FFT is performed on the received data to generate frequency domain received data. Subcarrier demapping is performed to extract data mapped on the assigned subcarriers. A channel estimator generates a channel matrix which is decomposed into U, D and V H matrices. A channel distortion and interference between transmit and receive antennas are equalized based on the decomposed channel matrices to the extracted frequency domain received data.

Description

[0001] MIMO BEAM FORMING BASED SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM [0002]

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system based on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3GPP2 are currently being deployed in the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA; Long term evolution (LTE) of a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) terrestrial radio access. Currently, SC-FDMA is being considered for the evolved UTRA (E-UTRA).

In SC-FDMA, a plurality of orthogonal subcarriers are divided into a plurality of subcarrier blocks (also known as "resource blocks"). The subcarrier block may be a localized subcarrier block or a distributed subcarrier block. A local subcarrier block is defined as a set of several consecutive subcarriers, and a distributed subcarrier block is defined as a set of several discontinuous subcarriers. The subcarrier block is a basic scheduling unit for uplink transmission in an SC-FDMA system. Depending on the data rate or the buffer status, at least one subcarrier block is allocated for a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) for transmission.

MIMO refers to a type of radio transmission and reception scheme in which both the transmitter and the receiver employ more than one antenna. MIMO systems use spatial diversity or spatial multiplexing to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and increase throughput.

The present invention relates to a MIMO beamforming based SC-FDMA system including a transmitter and a receiver.

The present invention relates to a MIMO beamforming based SC-FDMA system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. At the transmitter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) is performed on the data for transmission to generate frequency domain transmission data. The subcarrier mapping unit maps the frequency domain transmission data to the allocated subcarriers. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is performed on the transmission data mapped to the allocated subcarriers to generate time domain transmission data, and then the time domain transmission data is transmitted through a plurality of antennas. At the receiver, the transmitted data is detected by a plurality of receive antennas. An FFT is performed on the received data to generate frequency domain received data. The subcarrier demapping unit at the receiver extracts the mapped data for the assigned subcarrier. A channel estimator at the receiver generates a channel matrix, and a singular value decomposition (SVD) unit decomposes the channel matrix into U, D and V ^H matrices. The channel diagonalization and beamforming unit at the receiver then equalizes the channel distortion and the interference between the transmit and receive antennas based on the decomposed channel matrix for the extracted frequency domain received data.

According to the present invention, a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system based on multiple input multiple output (MIMO) beamforming can be provided.

1 is a block diagram of a transmitter constructed in accordance with the present invention;
2 is a block diagram of a receiver constructed in accordance with the present invention;

When referred to hereafter, the term "WTRU" includes but is not limited to a user equipment (UE), a mobile station, a fixed or mobile subscriber unit, a pager, or any other type of device capable of operating in a wireless environment. When referred to hereafter, the term "base station" includes but is not limited to a Node B, a site controller, an access point (AP) or any other type of interfacing device in a wireless environment. The invention may be implemented in a WTRU or base station.

The features of the present invention may be incorporated into an integrated circuit (IC), or may be configured in a circuit comprising a plurality of interconnecting components.

1 is a block diagram of a transmitter 100 constructed in accordance with the present invention. It should be noted that FIG. 1 is provided by way of example and that the functions performed by the components shown in FIG. 1 may be performed by more or fewer physical components. The transmitter 100 includes encoders 102a-102n, modulators 104a-104n, fast Fourier transform (FFT) units 106a-106n, pulse shaping filters 108a-108n, subcarrier mapping units 110a- Beamformer 112 (optional), an inverse FFT (IFFT) unit 114a-114n, a cyclic prefix (CP) insertion unit 116a-116n and multiple antennas 118a-118n for MIMO.

Transmission data 101a-101n are encoded by encoders 102a-102n. It should be noted that the transmitter 100 may include only one encoder depending on the system configuration. The encoded input data 103a-103n are modulated by the modulators 104a-104n, respectively, according to the modulation scheme. The modulated input data 105a-105n are each processed by the FFT units 106a-106n and converted into frequency domain data 107a-107n. The frequency domain data 107a-107n are processed through the pulse shaping filters 108a-108n, respectively. After being processed by the pulse shaping filters 108a-108n, the frequency domain data 107a-107n are mapped to the subcarriers assigned by the subcarrier mapping units 110a-110n, respectively. The subcarrier mapped data 111a-111n may be selectively processed using a transmit beamforming matrix by the beamformer 112 and / or a scaling factor 120, which will be described in more detail below.

Subcarrier mapped data 111a-111n (or data 113a-113n processed by beamformer 112) are then processed by IFFT units 114a-114n, respectively, to generate time domain data 115a-115n ). The CP is then added to the respective time domain data 115a-115n by the CP insertion units 116a-116n and these domain data 115a-115n are transmitted via the antennas 118a-118n, respectively.

2 is a block diagram of a receiver 200 constructed in accordance with the present invention. It should be noted that FIG. 2 is provided by way of example and that the functions performed by the components shown in FIG. 2 may be performed by more or fewer physical components. The receiver 200 includes a plurality of antennas 202a-202n, CP removal units 204a-204n, IFFT units 206a-206n, subcarrier demapping units 208a-208n, a controller 210, 212a-212n, channel estimator 214, singular value decomposition (SVD) unit 216, channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218, IFFT units 220a-220n, demodulators 222a-222n, 224a-224n.

The signal transmitted from the transmitter 100 is detected by a plurality of antennas 202a-202n, and a plurality of received data streams 203a-203n are generated. Each received data stream 203a-203n is processed by a CP removal unit 204a-204n, respectively, to remove the inserted CP in the transmitter 100. [

After removing the CP, the received data streams 205a-205n are sent to the FFT units 206a-206n, respectively, to be transformed into frequency domain data 207a-207n. Each subcarrier demapping unit 208a-208n extracts specific subcarrier signals 209a-209n according to the control signal 211 received from the controller 210. [ The controller 210 generates the control signal 211 based on the subcarriers allocated to the receiver 200. [ The allocated subcarrier may be a block of subcarriers or a set of subcarriers of distribution.

을 생성한다. 채널 추정기(214)는 도 2에 도시된 바와 같은 공동 채널 추정기(joint channel estimator)일 수 있다. 대안으로, 다수의 수신 데이터 스트림(213a-213n)을 각각 처리하기 위한 다수의 채널 추정기가 사용될 수 있다. 채널 행렬

은 SVD 유닛(216)으로 보내진다. Subsequently, the extracted subcarrier data 209a-209n are processed through the pulse shaping filters 212a-212n, respectively. After processing by the pulse shaping filters 212a-212n, data 213a-213n are sent to the channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 and the channel estimator 214. [ The channel estimator 214 generates a channel impulse response using the known pilot signal 230, and for each subcarrier,

. The channel estimator 214 may be a joint channel estimator as shown in FIG. Alternatively, multiple channel estimators may be used to process multiple received data streams 213a-213n, respectively. Channel matrix

Is sent to the SVD unit 216.

을 대각 행렬

및 단위 행렬

와

으로 분해한다. The SVD unit 216 is configured to generate a channel matrix < RTI ID = 0.0 >

Diagonal matrix

And unit matrix

Wow

.

와

는, 각각, k번째 사용자와 n번째 부반송파에 대한 단위 행렬이고, 행렬

와

의 고유벡터를 각각 포함한다.

이다. 대각 행렬

는

의 고유값의 제곱근을 포함한다. SVD는 채널 행렬 분해를 위한 하나의 예이며, 같은 결과를 달성하기 위해 (고유값 분해(EVD)와 같은) 임의의 기타 행렬 분해 방법을 이용하여 채널 행렬 분해가 수행될 수 있다는 것을 주목하여야 한다. Here, the superscript H denotes the Hermitian transpose.

Wow

Are the unitary matrix for the k-th user and the n-th subcarrier, respectively,

Wow

Respectively.

to be. Diagonal matrix

The

The square root of the eigenvalue of < RTI ID = 0.0 > SVD is an example for channel matrix decomposition and it should be noted that channel matrix decomposition may be performed using any other matrix decomposition method (such as eigenvalue decomposition (EVD)) to achieve the same result.

,

및

는 채널 대각화 및 빔형성 유닛(218)에 보내지고, 채널 대각화 및 빔형성 유닛(218)은 채널 왜곡 및 안테나들 사이의 간섭이 제거되도록 주파수 도메인 등화를 수행한다. According to a first embodiment of the present invention,

,

And

Is sent to channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 and channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 performs frequency domain equalization to eliminate channel distortion and interference between antennas.

The signals received in the frequency domain are expressed as follows.

및 는 사용자 k의 n번째 부반송파에 대하여 각각 주파수 도메인에서의 수신된 신호 및 전송된 데이터이고,

는 잡음이다. 채널 대각화 및 빔형성 유닛(218)은 주파수 도메인 수신 신호

에 행렬

및

을 적용함으로써 채널 왜곡 및 간섭을 등화한다. 대각화 후의 결과적인 신호

는 다음과 같이 표현되며, 이는 주파수 도메인 데이터에 잡음을 더한 것이다.here,

And Is a received signal and transmitted data in the frequency domain, respectively, for the nth subcarrier of user k,

Is noise. The channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 receives the frequency domain received signal

In the matrix

And

To equalize channel distortion and interference. The resulting signal after diagonalization

Is expressed as follows, which adds noise to the frequency domain data.

Equation (3) is a zero forcing solution for performing beamforming in the receiver 200 only. This solution can equalize channel distortion and antenna interference, but increases noise.

After channel diagonalization and channel diagonalization by beamforming unit 218, data 219a-219n are processed by IFFT units 220a-220n, respectively, and converted into time domain data 221a-221n. The time domain data 221a-221n are demodulated by demodulators 222a-222n respectively and demodulated data 223a-223n are processed by decoders 224a-224n to generate estimated data 225a-225n, respectively do. Only one decoder may be used depending on the system configuration.

According to a second embodiment of the present invention, beamforming is performed in both the transmitter 100 and the receiver 200. At the transmitter 100, the data for transmission 101 is scaled using the inverse of the diagonal matrix D and multiplied by the steering matrix V by the beamformer 112. [ Alternatively, the transmitter 100 may apply only the adjustment matrix V. The matrices D and V may be fed back to the transmitter 100 by the receiver 200. Alternatively, the transmitter 100 may include a channel estimator and an SVD unit such that the transmitter 100 may obtain the D and V matrices based on channel reciprocity. This operation is expressed as follows for the user and subcarrier.

The received signal is expressed as follows.

에 대해 행렬

을 승산함으로써 수신 빔형성이 수행된다. 빔형성 후의 결과적인 신호는 다음과 같다.At the receiver 200, the channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 generates a received signal

For the matrix

To thereby perform reception beamforming. The resulting signal after beam formation is:

Equation (6) is a zero forcing solution for performing beamforming in both the transmitter 100 and the receiver 200. This solution avoids the problem of noise increase in the solution of Equation (3) by performing pre-beamforming with equalization in the transmitter 100. However, the solution in Equation (6) leads to a larger peak power to average power ratio (PAPR) in the transmitter 100.

및

행렬 및 추정 SNR을 포함한다. 피드백 정보는 완전 피드백 정보이거나 부분 피드백 정보일 수 있다. 송신기(100)의 빔형성기(122)는 MMSE 해법에 기초하여 전송용 데이터(101)를 다음과 같이 스케일링 및 조정한다. According to a third embodiment of the present invention, a minimum mean square error (MMSE) solution is used to suppress PAPR at the transmitter 100. [ The beamforming in the transmitter 100 according to the third embodiment requires feedback information from the receiver 200. [ Feedback information

And

Matrix and an estimated SNR. The feedback information may be complete feedback information or partial feedback information. The beamformer 122 of the transmitter 100 scales and adjusts the data 101 for transmission based on the MMSE solution as follows.

The received signal is expressed as follows.

을 승산함으로써 수신 빔형성을 수행한 후에, 그 결과의 신호는 다음과 같이 표현된다. The channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 generates a matrix

, The resultant signal is expressed as follows: < EMI ID = 1.0 >

PAPR is reduced as shown in Equation (7). The estimated data at the receiver 200 becomes closer to the transmitted data as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increases as shown in Equation (9).

According to the fourth embodiment, the beamforming is performed only at the receiver 200 and does not send any feedback to the transmitter 100. [ Based on the MMSE solution, the received signal after reception beamforming and noise suppression by channel diagonalization and beamforming unit 218 is expressed as:

이 높은 SNR에서 항등 행렬(indentity)이 되고

이기 때문이다. 낮은 SNR에서는, 수신기(200)에서 등화된 빔형성 신호는 근사화 오차를 이용하여 추정된다.(즉,

플러스 잡음에 의해 야기된 오차)As shown in Equation (11), the equalized signal after beam formation in the receiver 200 approaches the transmitted data at a high SNR. That is,

Becomes an identity matrix at high SNR < RTI ID = 0.0 >

. At low SNR, the equalized beamforming signal at receiver 200 is estimated using an approximation error (i.e.,

Error caused by plus noise)

Example

1. An SC-FDMA system, wherein a portion of a plurality of subcarriers is assigned to a transmitter and a receiver for communication.

2. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 1 comprising a MIMO transmitter.

3. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 2 wherein the MIMO transmitter comprises a first set of FFT units that perform an FFT on the data for transmission to produce frequency domain data.

4. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 3, wherein the MIMO transmitter includes a plurality of subcarrier mapping units for mapping the frequency domain transmission data to subcarriers allocated to the MIMO transmitter and the MIMO receiver.

5. The system of embodiment 4 wherein the MIMO transmitter comprises a first set of IFFT units for performing IFFT on the transmission data mapped to the allocated subcarriers to generate time domain transmission data.

6. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 5 wherein the MIMO transmitter comprises a plurality of transmit antennas for transmitting the time domain transmit data.

[0070] 7. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 1-6, comprising a MIMO receiver.

8. The system of embodiment 7 wherein the MIMO receiver comprises a plurality of receive antennas for receiving the transmitted time domain transmit data and generating a plurality of streams of the received data.

9. The system of embodiment 8 wherein the MIMO receiver comprises a second set of FFT units that perform an FFT on the received data to generate frequency domain received data.

10. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 9, wherein the MIMO receiver includes a plurality of subcarrier demapping units for extracting mapped data for the allocated subcarriers.

11. The system as in any of the embodiments 7-10, wherein the MIMO receiver comprises at least one channel estimator for performing channel estimation on a MIMO channel between the transmitter and the receiver to generate a channel matrix. FDMA system.

12. The transmitter of embodiment 11, wherein the MIMO receiver further comprises a channel matrix decomposition unit for decomposing the channel matrix into a diagonal matrix D and unitary matrices U and V ^H , wherein the superscript H represents an Hermitian transpose matrix , SC-FDMA system.

13. The transmitter of embodiment 12 wherein the MIMO receiver includes a channel diagonalization and beamforming unit for equalizing channel distortion by applying at least one of the U, D, and V ^H matrices to the extracted frequency domain received data SC-FDMA system.

14. The system of embodiment 13 wherein the MIMO receiver comprises a second set of IFFT units that perform IFFT on the equalized data to generate time domain received data.

15. The system of embodiment 13 or 14 wherein the channel diagonalization and beamforming unit equalizes the channel distortion based on a zero forcing solution.

16. The SC-FDMA system as in any of the embodiments 13-14, wherein the channel diagonalization and beamforming unit equalizes the channel distortion based on an MMSE solution.

[0064] [0062] 17. The system as in any of the embodiments 2-16, wherein the MIMO transmitter further comprises a beamformer that performs transmit beamforming by applying the V matrix to the frequency domain transmit data.

18. The system of embodiment 17 wherein the MIMO transmitter obtains the V matrix from the receiver.

19. The system of embodiments 17 or 18, wherein the MIMO transmitter further comprises a second channel estimator for performing channel estimation to obtain the V matrix based on channel reciprocity.

20. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 17-19, wherein the beamformer applies a scaling factor.

21. The system of embodiment 20 wherein the scaling factor is an inverse D matrix.

22. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 20 wherein the scaling factor is generated based on the D matrix and the noise variance.

23. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 1-22, wherein the sub-carriers allocated to the MIMO receiver are blocks of local sub-carriers.

[0064] [0064] 24. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 1-22, wherein the sub-carriers assigned to the MIMO receiver are a set of distributed sub-carriers.

25. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 2-24, wherein the MIMO transmitter further comprises a CP insertion unit for inserting a CP into the time domain transmission data.

26. The SC-FDMA system of embodiment 25 wherein the MIMO receiver further comprises a CP removal unit that removes the CP from the received data.

27. The receiver as in any one of embodiments 10-26, wherein the MIMO receiver further comprises a controller for generating a control signal indicating a subcarrier assigned to the receiver, whereby the subcarrier demapping unit is based on the control signal And extracts specific data mapped to the subcarrier.

28. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 12-27, wherein the channel matrix decomposition unit is an SVD unit.

29. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 12-27, wherein the channel matrix decomposition unit is an EVD unit.

[0050] [0050] 30. The SC-FDMA system as in any embodiments 2-29, wherein the MIMO transmitter is a WTRU.

31. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 7-30, wherein the MIMO receiver is a base station.

32. The SC-FDMA system as in any embodiments 2-29, wherein the transmitter is a base station.

33. The SC-FDMA system as in any one of embodiments 7-30, wherein the receiver is a WTRU.

34. A method of MIMO beamforming in an SC-FDMA system, wherein a portion of a plurality of subcarriers is assigned to a transmitter and a receiver for communication.

35. The method of embodiment 34 comprising the step of the transmitter performing an FFT on the data for transmission to generate frequency domain data.

36. The method of embodiment 35 comprising the step of the transmitter mapping the frequency domain transmission data to sub-carriers allocated to the transmitter and the receiver.

37. The method of embodiment 36 comprising the step of performing an IFFT on the transmit data mapped to the allocated subcarriers such that the transmitter generates time domain transmit data.

38. The method of embodiment 37 comprising the transmitter transmitting the time domain transmission data through a plurality of antennas.

39. The method of embodiment 38 comprising the receiver receiving the transmitted time domain transmission data and generating a plurality of streams of the received data.

40. The method of embodiment 39 comprising the step of the receiver performing an FFT on the received data to generate frequency domain received data.

41. The method of embodiment 40 comprising the step of the receiver extracting mapped data for the allocated subcarriers.

42. The method of embodiment 41 comprising performing channel estimation of a MIMO channel between the transmitter and the receiver such that the receiver generates a channel matrix.

43. The receiver of embodiment 42, further comprising: the receiver decomposing the channel matrix into a diagonal matrix D and a unitary matrix U and V ^H , wherein the superscript H represents an Hermitian transpose matrix. Way.

44. The method of embodiment 43 comprising the receiver equalizing the channel distortion by applying at least one of the U, D and V ^H matrices to the extracted frequency domain received data.

45. The method of embodiment 44 comprising the step of the receiver performing an IFFT on the equalized data to generate time domain received data.

46. The method of embodiment 44 or 45 wherein the channel distortion is equalized based on a zero forcing solution.

47. The method of embodiment 44 or 45 wherein the channel distortion is equalized based on an MMSE solution.

48. The method as in any of the embodiments 35-47, further comprising the transmitter performing transmit beamforming by applying the V matrix to the frequency domain transmit data.

49. The method of embodiment 48 wherein the transmitter obtains the V matrix from the receiver.

50. The method as in any of the embodiments 48 or 49, further comprising performing channel estimation such that the transmitter obtains the V matrix based on channel reciprocity.

51. The method as in any one of embodiments 36-50, wherein the transmitter applies a scaling factor to the frequency domain transmission data.

52. The method of embodiment 51 wherein the scaling factor is an inverse D matrix.

53. The method of embodiment 51 wherein the scaling factor is generated based on the D matrix and the noise variance.

54. The method as in any of the embodiments 34-53, wherein the sub-carriers assigned to the receiver are blocks of local sub-carriers.

55. The method as in any of the embodiments 34-53, wherein the subcarriers assigned to the receiver are a set of distributed subcarriers.

56. The method as in any of the embodiments 37-55, further comprising the step of the transmitter inserting a CP in the time domain transmit data.

57. The method of embodiment 56 wherein the receiver removes the CP from the received data.

58. The method as in any one of embodiments 41-57, further comprising generating a control signal indicating a sub-carrier assigned to the receiver by the receiver, whereby the data mapped to the assigned sub- / RTI > signal. ≪ / RTI >

[0065] [0064] 59. The method as in any of the embodiments 43-58, wherein the channel matrix is decomposed by performing an SVD.

[0064] 60. The method as in any of the embodiments 43-58, wherein the channel matrix is decomposed by performing EVD.

While features and components of the present invention have been described in the above preferred embodiments in certain combinations, each feature or component may be used alone without the other features and components of the preferred embodiments, or other features and configurations of the present invention. It may be used in various combinations with or without elements and other features and components of the present invention.

Claims (21)

Wireless Transmit / Receive Unit (WTRU) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication in single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems To
A first set of FFT units configured to perform a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the data for transmission to generate frequency domain transmission data;
A plurality of subcarrier mapping units configured to map the frequency domain transmission data onto assigned subcarriers for transmission;
A first set of IFFT units configured to perform an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the transmission data mapped to the assigned subcarriers to generate time domain transmission data;
A plurality of transmit antennas configured to transmit the time domain transmit data; And
CP insertion unit configured to insert a cyclic prefix (CP) into the time domain transmission data
Gt; (WTRU) < / RTI > The method according to claim 1,
And the subcarriers allocated for transmission are a block of localized subcarriers. The method according to claim 1,
And the subcarriers allocated for transmission are a set of distributed subcarriers. The method according to claim 1,
And a beamformer configured to apply one or more steering matrices (V) or a single matrix (U) to the frequency domain data. The method according to claim 1,
A receiver configured to receive feedback indicative of a value for the steering matrix V; And
A beamformer configured to apply the feedback steering matrix (V) to the frequency domain transmission data
A wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) further comprising. The method according to claim 5,
The steering matrix (V) comprises an eigenvector of the matrix formed by the product of the Hermitian tranpose of the channel matrix (H) and the channel matrix (H). Wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU). The method of claim 6,
The steering matrix (V) and the channel matrix (H) satisfy the formula H = UDV ^H ,
Where U is a unitary matrix containing the eigenvectors of the product of the channel matrix H and the Hermitian transpose of the channel matrix H,
D is a diagonal matrix comprising a square root of the eigenvalue of the product of the channel matrix (H) and the Hermitian prematrix of the channel matrix (H). The method according to claim 5,
And the beamformer applies a scaling factor. The method according to claim 8,
The scaling factor is the inverse of the diagonal matrix D that satisfies the formula H = UDV ^H ,
Where H is a channel matrix, U is a single matrix, and V ^H is a Hermitian prematrix of the fed-back steering matrix. The method according to claim 9,
And said scaling factor is generated based on said diagonal matrix (D) and noise variance. In the method for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system,
Receiving the transmitted time domain transmission data and generating a plurality of streams of the received data;
Performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the received data to generate frequency domain received data;
Extracting data mapped on the assigned subcarriers;
Performing channel estimation on the MIMO channels between the transmitter and the receiver to produce a channel matrix H;
Decomposing the channel matrix into a diagonal matrix (D), a single matrix (U), and a steering matrix (V) where H = UDV ^H , wherein the superscript H represents a Hermitian transpose matrix The channel matrix decomposition step;
Performing receive beamforming on data mapped on the assigned subcarriers by applying a Hermitian prematrix of the single matrix (U) to the extracted data; And
Performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the beamformed data to generate time domain received data
Multiple input multiple output communication method comprising a. The method of claim 11,
Equalizing the channel distortions based on a zero forcing solution. The method of claim 11,
And equalizing channel distortion based on a minimum mean square error (MMSE) solution. The method of claim 11,
Generating a control signal indicative of subcarriers assigned to a transmitter, and extracting specific data mapped on the subcarriers based on the control signal. The method of claim 11,
The channel matrix decomposition step includes performing singular value decomposition (SVD). The method of claim 11,
And wherein said channel matrix decomposition comprises performing eigenvalue decomposition (EVD). The method of claim 11,
The diagonal matrix (D) comprises a square root of the eigenvalue of the product of the channel matrix (H) and the Hermitian prematrix of the channel matrix (H). . The method of claim 11,
And said steering matrix (V) comprises an eigenvector of a matrix formed by the product of the Hermitian transpose matrix of said channel matrix (H) and said channel matrix (H). 19. The method of claim 18,
And wherein said single matrix (U) comprises an eigenvector of a matrix formed by the product of said channel matrix (H) and said Hermitian prematrix of said channel matrix (H). In the method for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system,
Performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the data for transmission to generate frequency domain transmission data;
Mapping the frequency domain transmission data onto subcarriers assigned for transmission;
Performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the transmission data mapped to the assigned subcarriers to generate time domain transmission data;
Transmitting the time domain transmission data; And
Inserting a cyclic prefix (CP) into the time domain transmission data
Multiple input multiple output communication method comprising a. Receiving feedback indicative of a value for the beamforming matrix;
Applying the beamforming matrix to transmission data; And
Transmitting the transmission data
≪ / RTI >

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